Maize
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Maize, wheat, and sorghum dock at the port of Mombasa amid high commodity prices
KENYA – Kenya has received white maize, sorghum, and wheat from overseas steered to ease a shortage of common commodities in a bid to avert…
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Aflatoxin biocontrol technology sheds light on maize and groundnut farmers in Tanzania
TANZANIA – Atoxigenic-based technology for biocontrol of aflatoxin reduces contamination by over 85% in maize and groundnut crops in Tanzania, a study has reported. The…
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Kenya partners IFC to unveil US$ 2.7M warehouse receipt system aimed at reducing post-harvest losses
KENYA – The government of Kenya through the Ministry of Trade has partnered with the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands…
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Kenya shifts focus to irrigation as the solution to food security, targets 3M acres by 2030
KENYA – The government of Kenya has announced plans to put three million acres of land under irrigation farming by 2030 in an effort to…
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Cyclone Freddy claims 2,000 hectares of crops in Mozambique as Zimbabwe donates 300 tonnes of maize meal to Malawian victims
MOZAMBIQUE – The floods brought by tropical cyclone Freddy to the central Mozambican province of Manica have caused the loss of almost 2,000 hectares of…